**Dennis Broe On The World Film Beat: Professor Broe on location in Paris, with his continuing analysis of world cinema in collision with politics, history and other matters; Marvel comics on screen sanitized, market ready and without critical dimension; the Red Brigades and cinema by cell phone; and films with characters who make no journey.

**Poetry Corner: A discussion and reading with poet and editor Doug Valentine about his new anthology of global political poetry, With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems Of The New American Century. Chris Butters reports.

Prairie Miller is a New York multimedia journalist online, in print and radio, who reviews movies and conducts in-depth interviews. She can also be heard on WBAI/Pacifica National Radio Network’s Arts Express.